Coat-hook



(No Model G. H. MILLS.

GOAT HooK.

No 265.622. Patented Oct. 10, 1882.

m m w `UNITED STATES PATENT .OFFICE.

GEORGE H. MILLS, OF BOSTON, MASSAOHUSETTS.

COAT-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. .265,622, clated October 10, 1882.

Application filed May 5, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom ft may conce m:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ll. MLLs, ot' Boston, in the county of Suft'olk, State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Goat-Hooks, of which the following -is a description suffieiently full, clear, and exactto enable any person skilled in the art or science to which my inveution appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the aceompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation Fig. 2, an isometrical perspeetive view; Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinal section and Fig. 4, a sectional view,showing an alternateform ofeonstruction.

Likeletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawngs.

My invention relates to that class of coatbooks or wardrobe-hooks which are provided with means for-lookingorsecuringthegarment to the book; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a more effective device of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

ln the drawings, A represents the body; B C, the bracketsor arms; I),the lockingpad or elamp; E,the support or holder, and F the wall to which the hook is attached.

The body is preferably Castor forned in two sections,thehalves being united bythe screws a a a. The braekets B C are hollow, and are provided with screw-holes m m at the base, which receive the screws by which the hook is attached to the wall.

The locking-pad D has a shank, G, extending into the bracket B, and provided with the noteh .r and annular groove z.

A looking spring or catch, H, is Secured within the bracket B by the screw d, being provided with a lip or flange, t', at its outer Or lree end, which fits the notch a; and groove z. The bracket B is fitted with a key, R, which acts on the spring H, and also with an auxiliary book, K.

A wire support or eoat-holder,E, is arranged horizontallyon the upper side of the bracket 0, being Secured to the same, as shown at Z,Fig. 3. The hracket O is enlarged near its outer end to receive the rubher eushion J, and there is also arubber orlvathercushiou,M,altached to the inner l'ace ot' the lockingpad D.

Attached to the lower end ot' the body A there is a chai1,L. provided at its free end with the spool or clutch f, which tits into the hole or aperture g, one half of which lole is formed in the body ot' the pad D and the other in the outer end of the bracket B.

In the use of my improved hook the key R is inserted and the device unlocked. The pad D is then withdrawnfrom the eushion J until the lip tfalls into the groove zot' the shank G,when the pad is swiveled or turned to the right or left, and the coat or garment inserted between the pad and eushion J and passed over the supportE. The chain L is then passed through .the sleeve of the coat, and the spool or clutch finserted in the lole g, after which the pad D is pushed inward until the' fiangei falls into the uotch anthus looking the device and secuing the garment between the cuslions J M in a manner which will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters without a more explicit description. The outer portion of' the shank G, where itjoins the body of the pad-D, is squared'at n, and fits a corresponding square in the interier of thebracket B,the object being to prevent the pnd from being turned to the right or left,and thus enable the garment to be removed without first unloclting the device.

By arranging the screw-holesmm in the position shown within the bracketsB G the screws by which the hook is Secured arerendered inaceessible to a thief or other person attempting to detach or remove the device from the wall F.

- lt will be obvious that one or both of the eushionsJ M may be dispensed with,if desired, and that instead ot' the rubber eushion J a pad provided with a eoiled spring may be used; v

also, that the support E and chain L may be omitted without departing from the spirit ot' my invention.

I sometimes construct the pad D and cushiou M as shown in Fig. 4, the inner face of the pad being inclined and the eushion thinnest at the lower edge,o,the eushion being attached to the pad by the screw 1), arranged to work in the 'slot h, so that when an attempt is made to IOO 2 r &65,622

remove the garment Without unloeking the hook the eushion will he forced downward and wedged between the padDandeushionJ,thus firmly holding or seouring the garment. ;rre-ater the strain on the same or theharde'it is pulled the tighter it Will beoomewedged between the cushions.

Having thus explained my improvement, What I claim isl. The looking eoat-hook described,the same consisting of the body A, provided with the braekets B O, pzd D, and spring-catch H, ali eonstruoted and arrauged to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The support E, arranged horizoutally within thejews or pads of the hook, in combimtion with the braekets C B, looking-spring H, and pads J D, suhstautially as and ior the purpose set i'orth.

3. The hraeket O,provided with the yielding oushiou J atits outer end,i conbinatio With the looking-pari D, hracket B, and spring- The.

catch H, eonstrueted and arranged to operate substantially as described.

4. The shank Gr, provided with the annular 2 groove z,in combination with the spring-catch H, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

5. The ohain L, provided &tits free end with the spool or clutchf, in com hination with the 30 body A, pad D, and hraoket B, provided With the hole or aperture g, for reeeiving and holding the oiuteh, substantieliy as and for the purpose specified.

(3. The looking-pm] D, having its inner face 35 GEORGE H. MILLS.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN H. SWASE Y, U. A. SHAW. 

